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What are Magento customer groups and what value do they hold for a store admin? How to manage customer groups from admin panel and what changes can be made programmatically? Read on to find out. <\/span><\/p>\n

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No matter how large or small your online store is, you will have a certain number of customers that can not be unmanaged – unless you want the chaos to rule your ecommerce. What is more, it is important to create on-site marketing and promotional and involve customers into them.  Yet, the larger your online shop becomes, the less convenient it is to manage your clients manually. But Magento ecommerce platform offers a wonderful way out – customer groups.<\/span><\/p>\n

Explore our article and learn what are Magento customer groups and how to manage them.  Also, discover the extension we created to introduce an individual customer group feature. And finally, find out top 3 Magento customer groups extensions worth implementing into your ecommerce.<\/span><\/p>\n

Table of contents:<\/b><\/p>\n

What are customer groups in Magento?
\n<\/a>How to create customer groups in Magento?
\n<\/a>How to set customer group pricing in Magento?
\n<\/a>Top 3 Magento customer group extensions
\n<\/a>How to create customer groups programmatically in Magento 2
\n<\/a>How to assign a customer to a group programmatically
\n<\/a>How to delete the customer group programmatically
\n<\/a>How to set Group Price programmatically<\/a><\/p>\n

What are customer groups in Magento?<\/h2>\n

Being an advanced ecommerce solution, Magento comes with a set of comprehensive back office configurations that provides for the majority needs of businesses of all scales. The functionality that we will explore in this article and that is a wonderfully useful addition to the basic ecommerce customer management features are customer groups.   <\/span><\/p>\n

Magento back office allows to divide online store customers into more specific categories, called Magento customer groups. Magento 2 customer group behavior can be managed and controlled by the store admin, which allows, with application of specific extensions or custom development, to create a differentiated shopping experience for each client. Magento customer groups can be set up and modified in the store back office, but this means you get access to the default functionality only. Also, you can install a customer group extension or create a module of your own to implement the more advanced customer groups functionality.<\/span><\/p>\n

For instance, it is possible to divide customers into groups and assign different product prices for each, creating a multi-tiered pricing policy. This was only one example of how customer groups can upgrade your customer management, but you do not have to stick to this one and be creative in your application of Magento 2 customer groups.<\/span><\/p>\n

Here are some ideas on how to use customer groups in Magento:<\/span><\/p>\n